Chapter 330 Tacit understanding
Chapter 336: Tacit Understanding

"Huh? You want to be my personal bodyguards?" The next day, the children came to the door of the detective agency early in the morning. Last night, Xiaolan cried to vent her feelings and then fell asleep in a daze. After settling her down, I returned to my room. This morning, Xiaolan was obviously unwilling to talk more about what happened last night. Not only her, but I also didn't want to make too many statements about it. Shiho said before that the children collectively skipped classes and made an appointment to come to Xiaolan to play today, hoping to help Xiaolan recover her memory as soon as possible in this way. Xiaolan didn't choose to go to class because her body had not recovered yet, so she received the arrival of the children.

"Yes!" Genta arrived first. "Because Officer Takagi said that the murderer might harm you, Xiaolan." Genta pointed at Takagi who was grinning on the other side of the street, "So our Junior Detective Team decided to take full responsibility for Xiaolan's safety!"

"So, now we change our name to Sister Xiaolan's Exclusive Guard Team!" As they said this, the three children posed in an exaggerated manner, which made Conan couldn't help but cast a half-moon eye.

"I brought a pepper spray pistol!" Yuantai took out a green water gun with some red liquid in it.

"I have a boomerang!" Mitsuhiko took out an L-shaped toy from behind his waist.

"I have handcuffs!" Ayumi looked serious, but the plastic handcuffs in her hands were not convincing.

"I have an anesthetic needle and foot-strengthening shoes..." Conan complained in a low voice beside me.

"I have guns, bombs, RPGs, daggers, poison...hiss!" Before I finished speaking, Shiho, who was standing next to me, stepped on me hard. Then she said something indifferently.

"I have Kaoru."

"..."

"Is that so? Thank you." Xiaolan said to the three children with a gentle smile, not paying attention to the conversation between the three of us pseudo-primary school students. "Well, to thank you, I'll treat you to some cold drinks." So, surrounded by the children, Xiaolan walked back to her home with a cheerful smile. What happened last night was as if it had never happened to her. Or perhaps, she had completely concealed the deep pain in her heart.

"Your sister seems to be doing well?" Shiho said, looking at Xiaolan's smiling face.

"She's not good at expressing her inner sadness in front of others." I gave Shiho a helpless expression. "I'm worried about her like this."

"As long as your hippocampus isn't damaged, you'll recover your memory someday." Shiho gave me a comforting smile. "Look, didn't you recover after such a long time? Besides, Xiaolan was just stimulated, so she'll recover soon."

"Yes, of course." I nodded. "Let's go up too."

"Hey, Xiaoxun." Before I took a step, a crisp voice rang behind me. I turned around and found that it was Xiaolan's best friend, the second daughter of the Suzuki family, Sonoko. It seems that for Xiaolan, this eldest daughter also skipped class.

"Hey, Sister Sonoko." I greeted her, "Thank you for coming to see Sister Xiaolan."

"Hey, you are the smart one." Sonoko reached out and rubbed my hair. "Why, is this your girlfriend?" Pointing at Shiho next to her, Sonoko said with a gossipy look on her face. After all, Sonoko still remembers the look in her eyes from the previous day.

"Yes, yes, let's go up." I pushed the garden and then walked up together. "By the way, what are you holding in your hand?"

"This, this is a collection of all the photos of Xiaolan and I from junior high school to high school." Yuanzi shook the book in her hand. Then she showed a sad look. "I hope these can help Lan recover her memory."

"Oh, I will." I nodded. "Let's go up."

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"Xiaolan, these are your performances in the karate tournament, and the trophy you won when you won the championship." Arriving at the office, Sonoko showed Xiaolan the photos page by page. The children sat opposite and ate the shaved ice that Xiaolan prepared for them. "How is it? Do you remember anything?" Sonoko asked.

"No..." Xiaolan frowned slightly. From her expression, it can be seen that although she knew that the people in these photos were herself, she had no idea about the memories of them, including karate, which she had completely forgotten.

Turning a page in the album, a photo of Xiaolan, Sonoko and Kudo caught Xiaolan's eye. "This person..." Xiaolan's frown relaxed slightly.

"You mean Kudo?" Sonoko said with a sly look on her face. "He's your childhood sweetheart's husband."

"Eh?" Xiaolan tilted her head slightly, revealing a hint of doubt, and her cheeks were a little hot.

"Hey hey..." Conan's mouth twitched.

"She seems to have some impression?" Shiho saw Xiaolan's clues and said bluntly.

"Huh? Really? Sister Xiaolan?" Conan asked hurriedly.

"No..." Xiaolan shook her head, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "It's just that... this person makes me feel nostalgic. I don't know why."

"So, if we let Sister Xiaolan and Brother Shinichi meet, maybe they will remember it." Ayumi said.

"That's right, go and bring him here." Yuan Tai yelled at Yuan Zi, without any so-called courtesy. However, Yuan Zi, the second young lady, naturally didn't mind such kind words, and just yelled back in the same tone.

"If I knew where that bastard was, I wouldn't have to work so hard!"

"By the way, is that high school detective still handling cases across the country?" Mitsuhiko told him what he knew.

"Who knows where that guy died?" Sonoko was very dissatisfied. "Ran is suffering here, but that guy still can't practice!" "Kudo... What kind of person is Shinichi?" Ran interrupted everyone.

"He is just a stupid kid who only knows how to solve cases." Sonoko said disdainfully. "But he is very nice to you. I just don't know why you fell in love with him at that time."

"I..." I, Xiaolan, lowered my head slightly. "He feels very close to me. Unlike my brother, I miss him very far away..." I don't know why, Xiaolan said these two people who were suppressed in her heart at the same time. "I really want to see them... Even if it's just once..."

"Do not worry."

"Do not worry."

As soon as Xiaolan finished speaking, two voices rang out at the same time. Everyone looked over and saw Shiho sitting on a chair slowly putting shaved ice into her mouth. Next to her chair, two boys were also staring at Xiaolan with their eyes. The only difference was that one of them was full of hope, while the other was full of longing.

The two boys looked at each other, and after a moment of trance, the boy with pale golden hair turned his head silently and looked at the scenery outside the window, while the other boy with glasses continued to speak.

"I believe that no matter who Xiaolan is thinking of, one day, they will stand in front of you." The atmosphere suddenly became serious. Sonoko and the children gave up arguing, and only Xiaolan stared at Conan blankly. After a long time, Shiho, who was sitting at the edge, took the last bite of shaved ice and uttered four words with a hint of coldness in her mouth.

"..Two idiots."

After the silence, the children chatted with Xiaolan and Sonoko about family matters for the whole afternoon. On the other hand, Conan and I couldn't fit in, so the whole afternoon passed in a daze. Until night, after taking a shower, Conan found me in the room.

"Xiao Xun, tell me the truth, do you and Huibara have any clues about the antidote?"

"...I remember I seem to have answered this question for you?" Lying on my bed, I flipped through my phone without looking at Conan at all.

"That's why I'm asking you seriously again." Conan's expression was very formal. The towel on his shoulders couldn't make his formal face look relaxed at all. "Just like you told me that you didn't tell Aunt Eri about your identity."

"What's the connection between the two?" I glanced at Conan, then looked back at my phone. "You can see the relationship between my mother and I, so I didn't hide it from you later. And it doesn't mean much. We are all adults, so it's fine if we just keep it to ourselves?" (Okay, I admit that I haven't recalled the plot for too long and I wrote a bug, so I'll make it up.)
"So you wanted to keep the antidote a secret from me?" Conan's gaze narrowed.

"I know what you're thinking." I put down the phone. "But the antidote is really urgent. Do you think I don't want to recover and see Xiaolan?"

"There'll always be a sample, right?"

"If there is any, I will let Xiao Ai inform you immediately." I picked up the phone again. "As long as the medicine is safe."

"You..." Conan was furious, but he could do nothing. Conan was the most anxious for Xiaolan's recovery, so his brain, with an IQ of 250, froze at this moment.

Boom, boom, boom. . .

A knock on the door interrupted the stalemate between Conan and me. I opened the door and saw my mother in home clothes.

"Conan, Xiaoxun, do you want to go shopping in Ginza with Xiaolan tomorrow?" Mom said as she entered the room. After all, the stalemate between Conan and I cannot be shown in front of Mom. Although everyone knows each other's identity, they can't reveal it. In this regard, the three of them did a good job.

"Why did you think of going to Ginza?" I asked.

"I feel like getting mad when I think about living in the same room with that old man, so I plan to go shopping for clothes with Xiaolan tomorrow. You two should come too?"

"Okay, auntie." Conan nodded.

"Well, then I will..."

Didi, beep, beep.

Before I could finish my sentence, a text message was sent to my phone. As my finger ran over the message, my eyes narrowed slightly.

"...Sorry, I won't go tomorrow."

"Oh...I see." My mother looked a little hesitant, but she guessed the meaning of it in an instant and didn't say anything more. "Then, Conan will go with us tomorrow."

"Yeah!" Conan nodded with a smile.

After his mother left, Conan's expression returned from a childish one to his previous serious one. "What's going on?"

"Finding a friend has come true."

PS: Phew... I found a job. It's not easy. Well, it's really busy. I work overtime until after 9 o'clock every day. But after I get familiar with the working environment, I will find time to write for you. I bow here and apologize to all the readers. Due to personal reasons, my time is always unstable. I bow again. I forgot about the bug in the article because it's been too long, so I will make up for it today. I bow again. Happy 520 to everyone today, it's confession day... Well, so Shiho sprinkled dog food on other people's faces.

Everyone has something in their hands, what do you have?
I have Kaoru.

(End of this chapter)